Swallow Your Pride

Sometimes swallowing your pride is necessary for survival. This picture is a very good representation of this statement. Taken from wordpress, the picture simply shows a man swallowing the word PRIDE. It is showing that doing something like this is sometimes what it takes. Sometimes to survive, you must do what you think is impossible, unbearable, and possibly give up something you have worked very hard for.

In the play, Walter is going to swallow his pride and take Mr. Lindners offer. He realizes that in order for his family to get their money back he must do this. Although he made a mistake, he is willing to give up everything he has put into his gamble on the liquor store, and do what is best for his family. In the end of the play the family pulls together and takes a stand against Lindner, but I think they all looked at things could have been and were almost ready to swallow their pride in order to survive in that world.